Yahoo! UK & Ireland - Information Centre

Yahoo! UK & Ireland Information Centre

Copyright and Intellectual Property

Respect Intellectual Property Rights

Yahoo! respects the intellectual property of authors and creators and we ask our users to do the same. Yahoo! may in accordance with its Terms of Service and in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate without notice the accounts of users who may be infringing the intellectual property rights of others.

Copyright Information

Information on web sites is available for anyone to view, but not necessarily to access, download and utilise. Users of web sites may electronically copy or print portions of web sites for their own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance of the content on web sites is generally prohibited.

Infringement of Your Intellectual Property Rights

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Yahoo!'s Copyright Agent with the following information on this online form:

1. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
2. the nature of the authorisation or relationship where it is alleged that a third party authorises the infringement by another;
3. where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
4. your full name, address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law; AND
6. a statement by you, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorised to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

Yahoo! UK & Ireland's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

By email: Copyright and Intellectual Property Infringement Complaint Form
By fax: 020 7131 1015

By Mail:

Copyright Agent
Legal Department
Yahoo! UK Ltd
125 Shaftesbury Avenue
London WC2H 8AD

Permission Requests

If you are seeking permission to use any Yahoo! UK trademarks, logos, screen shots, copyrighted designs, or other brand features from the Yahoo! UK websites (http://uk.yahoo.com), please provide the following information to allow us to review your request:

1. registered company name of the organization and/or person requesting permission;
2. registered company office address and other contact information (e-mail, phone, fax);
3. country where the company is registered;
4. company registration number;
5. name of the book or website where Yahoo! material will appear;
6. exact Yahoo! logos or other Yahoo! materials to be used;
7. mock-up of the book or website in which the Yahoo! materials will appear.

Please send this information to us by fax or mail:

By fax: 020 7131 1015

By mail:

Permissions Agent
Legal Department
Yahoo! UK Ltd.
125 Shaftesbury Avenue
London WC2H 8AD

If your request is approved, that approval will be subject to the terms of the Product Placement Agreement which you will have to sign prior to your use of Yahoo! materials.

Yahoo! UK may only grant permission for the use of Yahoo! UK specific material such as Yahoo! UK logos or the Yahoo! UK front page (http://uk.yahoo.com) and other Yahoo! UK specific websites. Yahoo! Inc. in the US owns the right to Yahoo! US material (http://www.yahoo.com) and; therefore, permission to use Yahoo! US materials must be obtained directly from Yahoo! US. Information on Yahoo! US permissions can be found at http://docs.yahoo.com/info/copyright/permission.html.

Many Yahoo! websites incorporate third party content. Yahoo! is unable to grant permission for you to use third party content. Typical examples include Reuters or Associated Press articles and pictures appearing in Yahoo! News or Yahoo! Sports. Please contact the appropriate third party for permission to use their content.